Although Walter White, aka Heisenberg, wasn't running a lab directly out of his home, it's safe to say its newfound association with his activities create similar conditions.

We can also expand the paper's findings to Jesse Pinkman's first home, where he and Heisenberg had set up a lab; as well as Gus Fring's massive operation beneath a laundry, which Heisenberg burnt down.

It turns out that home values within one-sixteenth of a mile of the lab don't show tremendous changes pre- and post-bust.

That is presumably because, at such a close distance, the presence of the lab may be better known, Congdon-Hohman says.

Still, since meth labs are often better concealed than other types of illicit activity run out of homes, their presence may not be as obvious to someone living more than 600 feet away as they might be to someone living only 300 feet away, he says.

So, since people's wealth is to a great degree tied to their home values, he writes, "From a policy perspective, this ﬁnding suggests that government initiatives that would reduce the number of methamphetamine labs should be well funded."

We can actually complete the thought experiment for the White residence by looking at how much homes cost in the real-life neighborhood where externals are shot.